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Linda M. Crate, author of Blood & Magic
What have you written so far? I have written scads of poem, many short stories, personal essays, a few reviews, several chapbooks three of which are published: A Mermaid Crashing Into Dawn, Less Than A Man, and If Tomorrow Never Comes. I have written several fantasy novels four of which are published: Blood & Magic,…
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Dystopian Fiction, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Comic Books…
A Golden Age of Dystopian Fiction (New Yorker) Dystopias follow utopias the way thunder follows lightning. This year, the thunder is roaring. But people are so grumpy, what with the petty tyrants and such, that it’s easy to forget how recently lightning struck. “Whether we measure our progress in terms of wiredness, open-mindedness, or optimism,…
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Mooniana and the Secret of the Lost Chronicles of Sophia by Miranda Moondawn
In every epoch and age there are a handful of souls who hear the Earth’s voice, hearken to the Muses’s song and drink from the font of the Goddess of Wisdom. These are the poets, artists and visionairies of our world: the creative geniuses like Dante, Milton and Blake, whose inspiration and insights have shaped…
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Of Iron and Devils by B. H. Young
The Iron High Guard has stood as the enforcers of law for hundreds of years. They are the monsters at the gate that keep the devils at bay. On the morning that a raven arrives bringing news that a Province Steward has been murdered, Clint Godzton and his men are sent to investigate. What he…
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Miranda Moondawn, author of Mooniana and the Secret of the Lost Chronicles of Sophia
When and why did you begin writing? I first began writing in my late teens. I had read a lot of fantasy and adventure books as a child, but my first major impetus for writing came from a most unexpected source – from pop and rock bands and artists like the Beatles, Neil Young, Kate…
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“The Plain Truth” by Linda M. Crate
you told me i would never make it, and i have so far to go; but i’m not holding my breath expecting you to believe in me because i always had to believe in myself and my dreams before anyone else saw them come true— just know that one day the foundation of your cruel…
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“A Cruel Smile” by Linda M. Crate
spirals of light fell through your window illuminating the gold in your hair, and perhaps you were right when you said you were an elf; for you were both beautiful and distant and ever so cold— but i don’t think every elf should be so cruel you were clearly born to ones raised by wolves…
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“The Joke Was On Me” by Linda M. Crate
you did not choose for me to be your muse, but neither did i choose to fall in love with a rogue; it just happened without my permission which love does it opens us up to our vulnerabilities and pours out our souls— you stole pieces of me that i will never get back killed…
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TV Binging and Conservatives Killing Literature…
Blurring the lines between fiction and reality (The Straits Times) Recently, I interviewed an imaginary character. This was Geronimo Stilton, journalist and author, who has penned more than 100 books for young children about his travels to ancient Egypt, the kingdom of fantasy, back in time, too many places to count. He is also a fictional…
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Allan Batchelder, author of Steel Blood and Fire
When and why did you begin writing? I started writing compulsively when I was in the 8th grade, about 14 years old. I had an English class in which writing regular short stories was part of the curriculum…only my stories were thirty, forty, fifty pages long. I just got hooked and have never really stopped.…
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